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o 53 rd Yea? Price 10 Cents Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In Medford phone SP 2-6141 Ash land MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 12 JO ajn. Sunday. . If regular delivery arrive shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Recommended A feature story about the Orei gon Skyline Trail, part of the Cascade Crest Trail which ex tends from Canada to Mexico, appears on page 12 of today's Mall Tribune. nn-rr -rr -rr -rr -r-r. -r-rr- BFORD 1 KMUJMJi United Press Full Leased Wir United Press Full Leased Wire 66 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1958 No. 73 ME I SEARCH RIVER Che body of DeWayne L. Miller, 39, head of the Surface Water Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, Medford, was found in the upper Apple gate river about 2 p.m. Saturday, just downstream from where this picture was taken. Skindiver Lon 'Skinner, Medford, who searched holes along a six-mile stretch of the stream, is shown coming out of the. Geologic Surrey Man Cheeking Speed of Water The body of DeWayne L. Miller, 39, head of the Surface Water Division of the U.S. Geological Survey in Med-i ford, was found about 2 p.m. Saturday in shallow waters of the Applegate river. Sheriff's deputies headed a search by about 20 volunteers who sought the engineer in the waters and along the banks of the river about three miles below Copper after he was reportedomissin Friday afternoon. The body was found about 2V2 miles below the station. Deputies sid Miller was believed drowned about 9 a.m. Friday when he went into the river to measure water speed at the survey's station near the J. H. Mapston resi dence, Upper Applegate rd. Reported Missing He was reported missing in the early afternoon after the Mapston's found his shoes on the river bank and then saw his lunch in his truck. Miller had parked his truck at the residence about 8:30 a.m. and the readings usually take about an hour, deputies were told. The station is checked, about every six weeks. Volunteers and deputies searched until, dark Friday night and continued the search morning. Skin diver Lon Skinner of Medford hunt ed in the deeper pools. Miller, who is survived by his wife and seyen children, oaort ft to 19 years, had been with the Medford office for more than two years ana ran the department of interior for lSVz years. The family home is on Fowler lane near Camp White. Klamath Favors Sharing Assets Portland (UPI Nearly 78 per cent of the 2,133 enrolled 1 nt rir icon's Klam- ath Indian tribe have elected to withdraw from the tribal organization and receive a cash payment for their pro portionate share 0 the tribal assets, accorums partment of the erior. i cootarv nt the In terior Hatfield Chilson made the annWncemeui, x j api-ottf of the final results ar tnihal election. & final results, Chilson aia differ only slightly from ws?3 .inarv returns an- 1 fi59 dV tne em u"cu .n.... iishio- elected to withdraw. WashinlFon-(U-?ecre-' . Tnhn Foster arv 01 otakc Tnlies says SStl Khrushchev's latest 'f to President Eisenhower seems to be an effort to "push us pidly" toward an East- at River I- Two AFS if Live in Two students from foreign countries will be attending Medford High school under the auspices of the Medford committee of : the American Field Service, according to Mrs. H.-D. Christensen, presi dent of the local AFS group. Miss Sissel Frogner, a jun ior in high school from Skien, Norway, will be sponsored by the Crater Lions club and will lives with Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam J. Williams, 116 Black Oak dr., Medford. Williams is a vice president of Bear Creek Orchards and Play Casting to Start Late Today Ashland Casting for four plays to be presented in the 18th annual Oregon Shakes pearean Festival here July 28 through Sept 4 will get under way tonight after play-read-throughs are completed. Auditions for the 1958 plays started Friday after noon, and continued through Friday night. Complete read throughs of each play started Saturday morning by the 80 member company. The com pany personnel was selected Thursday from more than 400 applicants. The "director's call back" session is scheduled late to day, after which Producing Director Angus L. Bowmer and play directors, Robert Loper and James Sandoe, will select members of the casts for the plays. The 'cast list will be posted on the theater's call board at dawn Monday. Rehearsals will start Mon day afternoon. Monday night the Tudor Guild will be host to the company for the "cast ing blues" dinner. Plays scheduled this jear include "Much Ado About Nothing," "The Merchant of Venice," "King Lear," and "Troilus and Cressida." The latter, play is the only one which has not been staged at the Ashland theater pre viously. Keating Back From Trip to Portland County Judge Rodney Keat ing returned yesterday from a three-day trip to Portland to attend a meeting of the roads committee of the O and C as sociation. Keating said the group dis cussed possible federal aid for construction of the Quartz ville road along the Green Peter dam in Linn county. The road would give access to large holdings of private and federal timber lands. water to change oxygen tanks. Other men in the picture are Sergeants Paul Bettiol and Dean DeBerry of the Jackson county sheriff's office and volunteer Lowell Henry. Miller, handicapped by chest-high waders, apparently drowned when he lost his foot ing in swift water and was swept into a deep pool, sheriff's deputies said. Students Medford the father of two daughters, Marcia, who will be a junior in high .school this year, and Laura, who will be a student at the University of Oregon -Dave ""IrvihgV -president ;of the Crater - Lions, reported that this marks' the first spon sorship of an AFS student for their club. From Portugal The other student is An tonio Tittel from Portugal. His foster parents, while at tending Medford High school, wil be Dr. and Mrs. Brandt Bartels of Medford. The Bar tels have two daughters. Tittel will be sponsored by the Medford Rotary club, ac cording to president Chris Christensen. " The Medford Rotary club has sponsored an AFS student two years previously and was instrumental in establishing the program locally. This year's Rotary spon sored AFS student, Margareta Aulin, from Falun, Sweden, was honored last week as speaker to the club and" pre sented with a remembrance gift. She recorded a special overseas program with offi cers of the Rotary club. It will be sent to her hometown to lend publicity to the ex change program. Miss Aulin will leave Med ford about June 24 for a bus tour of the United States with other AFS students and will sail from Montreal,, Canada, July 26, for Sweden. Left Thursday Miss Roberta Sleeter, daugh ter of Mrs. Robert Sleeter, 37 Berkeley way, left last Thurs day from Portland with a group of American AFS stu dents who comprise the sum mer exchange program. This group sailed from Montreal June 11. Roberta will spend the summer with a family in Oslo, Norway. Prior to her departure she was presented with a check for $100 by the Medford High student body to demonstrate their interest and enthusiasm in the student exchange pro gram. Clubs, organizations or firms desiring information concerning ways they may participate may contact Mrs. Christensen. Bear-Like Katmandu, Nepal (UPI) A strange creature with a bear-like face and human feet believed to be a close relative of the "abominable snowman" was tracked down and killed by huntsmen in a rugged 14,000-foot adti tude mountain pass in north western Nepal, it was report ed Saturday. There was speculation that the beast possibly was the fabulous and elusive Yeti or "snowman" itself. The Raja of Mustang, whose High Court Asked To Reconsider Its Opinion on Judge Petition Filed by Medford Law Firm A petition asking the su preme court to reconsider its opinion which limited the term of County Judge Rodney Keating to four years was mailed to the Oregon Supreme Court clerk late last week by the law firm of Roberts, Kel- lington and Branchfield.' The petition was filed on behalf of County Clerk Ber eth Hopkins, who received a writ of mandamus from the supreme court Feb. 28 direct ing her to allow Democrat K. C. Wernmark, Central Point, to file for nomination for county judge, in the primary election May 16. She had refused to accept Wernmark's filing Feb. 13 on the grounds that the office was not open for election this year. Wernmjark, who was defeat ed by Scott Hamilton, Central Pointf in, the Democratic race for nomination, filed for elec tion bn the ground that the term of county judge should be for four years, rather .than six, since it is not a judicial position. District Attorney Thomas Reeder first1 issued the opin ion that the term should be for four years, but Attorney General Robert Thornton re versed, Reeder's opinion, stat ing that Keating was serving a six-year term. ; The term was again ruled to be four years when the su preme court isued the writ of mandamus to Mrs. Hopkins. The Medford law firm, which was hired by the coun ty court in March as the clerk's legal representative, announced Saturday that it is seking the supreme court's re consideration on its nwn init iative after asking for Mrs. Hopkins' approval. No charge is being made by the firm, which received $1,000 compensation for the earlier supreme court appear ance. Twelve counties in Oregon which have npn-judiciarcoun- ty judges would be affected by any change in the supreme court ruling. Hearing Slated On Adams Charge . Washington (UPI) The White House stuck by embat 1 1 e d presidential assistant Sherman Adams Saturday as a congressional investigating subcomitte prepared to open the most politically-charged hearing of the Eisenhower Ad ministration. Chairman Oreri Harris (D- Ark.) of the house subcom mittee on legislative oversight told a news, conference the erouD. in looking into charges that Adams misused his high position to gain favors for a rich friend, was not seeking to "smear" the chief presiden tial aide. Adams himself evaded newsmen, leaving unanswered newspaper reports that he ac cepted a $2,400 oriental rug and a $700 vicuna wool coat from Bernard Goldfine, mil lionaire New England textile manufacturer who was in trouble with the government. Two Republican senators seeking re-election this fall said Adams may have become a political liability. . Democrats stoked the politi cal fires with an eye to this fall's elections. Some likened the Adams-Goldfine relation ship to the Truman Adminis tration deep freeze and mink coat "mess in Washington" which the Republicans made a major issue in 1952. Creature riflemen slew the creature, is sending the skull and hide to Katmandu for examination by scientists, according .to re ports. The man-beast was describ ed as about four and one-half feet tall and incredibly strong. It was said to have run nearly a mile on its two hind legs carrying a yak the size of a full-grown steer in its arms. The creature was spotted about three months ago when it seized one of the Raja's yaks and carried it off. The Raja California Couple Finds Inch of Water On Returning Home ' Bell Gardens, Calif. (UPI) Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Plenvmons returned home Friday night io find an inch of water covering the floors in their home. It seems their pet mon key, Mickey, had forgot to turn the water off after taking a shower. Prime Minister Driven from Home By Beirut Rebels . Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Rebel troops drove Prime Minister Sami Es-Solh from his home and stormed his resi dence Saturday in the fiercest battle in the capital. since the start of the rebellion six weeks ago. Casualty -reports were con fused,, but conservative esti mates said at least 20 persons were killed and 25 wounded in Beirut. Reports from the northern port city 'of Tripoli said from 15 to 20 persons were killed and 35 were wounded when V the rebels opened fire on army head quarters there. The insurrectionists, carry ing the fight outside the city's Moslem quarter for the first time, launched the battle with an attempt to storm the city's central prison to free prison ers there before United Na tions observers, could interro gate them. ' , The rebels launched their attack on the prime minister's home with bazookas, mortars and machine guns. Solh and his family fled before the fighting broke out in full force. 1 The army rushed to defend the residence, but abandoned the position as untenable- aft er four soldiers were killed. Reports said the rebels swarmed into and looted the prime minister's residence, which is located on the edge of the Moslem quarter. The victory ' ended the or ganized fighting in Beirut and the fighting dwindled to spo radic firing by late last night. It was the fiercest day of fighting in the 36-day-old reb el effort to topple the U.S.r supported government of President Chamoun. Reports said the rebels ' in Tripoli fought for three hours before giving up their attempt to storm ..'army headquarters there. ; Crash Injuries Fatal to Youth , Gary'Eldon Scratcher, 17, of Sheridan, Ore.; died in a locat hospital Saturday morn ing of injuries received in a motorcycle, accident near Grants Pass June 5. . The Grants Pass state po lice office said it did not have a report on the accident, and that an investigation of the accdent is planned. ' Scratcher was born at Ar cadia, Kans., Aug. 3, 1940, and had graduated from high school this spring. Survivors include his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Oscar Scratcher, Sheridan; five sis ters, Barbara Joanne Scratch er, Sheridan, Mrs. Dolores Frances Beasley, Troutdale, Mrs. Lois Virginia Hines, Sheridan, Mrs. Donna Dean Johnson, The Dalles, Mrs. Bonnie Jean Broyles, Pitts burgh, Kan., and one broth er, Ronald Maurice Scratcher, Portland. The body will be forward ed to Sheridan for services and burial. Perl Funeral home was in charge of local arrangements. Shot in North Nepal sent a squad of riflemen in pursuit in the area near the border of Northwestern Nepal and Tibet. The Nepalese huntsman who led the party said they followed "what looked like a human footprint" into a crag gy pass walled in by 50-foot boulders. "The animal was cornered with its prey,", the huntsman said. "We tried to crush it by throwing down boulders but we only injured him. He made a strange, whistling sound when hurt. He tried to get Local Man Elected State Commander Of Disabled Vets Auxiliary Also Names Officers for Year Pat Graham of Medford, chairman for the 37th annual convention of the Department of Oregon, Disabled American Veterans, was elected state commander Saturday. The department ended its three-day convention in Med ford yesterday with business sessions and installation of of ficers at the Moose hall. Graham is a member of district 8. Charles Poteet, Klamath Falls, district 12, was elected senior vice comander; James Ollila, Clatskaine, dis trict 2, junior vice command er; Frank Barnes, Portland, district 1, chaplain; and Arch L. Brewster, Salem, district 6, treasurer. Graham announced that he is retaining Thomas L. Van Lanningham, Oregon City, as department adjutant at the Portland headquarters, and Medford Attorney Edward Branchfield as judge advo cate. Other appointments will be announced soon, he said. The convention passed a resolution endorsing installa tion of medical and surgical facilities at Camp White. Another resolution the con vention passed favored reduc tion of the required rate of disability for homestead tax exemptions for disabled vet erans. A third resloution favored set ting up a civilian court for the purpose of hearing appeals fro y Veterans Administration decisions on claims for vet erans benefits. It supported a bill, HRG722, now before the United States House of Rep resentatives, Graham said. Among activities during the meeting here was a banquet for members of the Lifers clubj a social group composed of veterans with life-long membership in the DAV. It was the only such group in the country until the Washing ton state DAV formed a sim ilar group two years ago, Gra ham reported. . Delegates attending the de partment convention of the Disabled American Veterans' auxiliary elected Mrs. Lloyd DeLap, Klamath Falls, depart ment commander yesterday. She succeeds Mrs. Archibald Zeek, Newport. lso elected were Mrs. Grover G. Raulus, Medford, senior vice commander; Mrs. Clarence Bartlett, Roseburg, junior vice commander; Mrs. Hugh Farnham, Forest Grove, chaplain; Mrs. Thomas Van Lanningham, Oregon City, treasurer. Mrs. Zeek was named deleg ate to the national convention in Louisville, Ky., in August, with Mrs. VanLanningham as alternate. Bids Opened for Dam Access Road A low bid of $56,100 for construction of the Howard Prairie dam access road on the Talent project was sub mitted' by Glenn Dusky Con struction company, Moses Lake, Wash., according to the bureau of reclamation at Camp White. The proposal was less than the government estimate of $97,684. Other bids which were un der the estimate were from Ralph A. Bross, Medford, $68,719; ,Q. L. Rufener, Port land, $74,631; Joe Ollis, Cave Junction, $91,062; F. L. Som ers, Medford, $91,128, and G. Frank King, Portland, $97, 285. Two bids higher than the government estimate were from Patton and Jackson, Grants - Pass, $99,714, and Riverbend Contractors, Inc., Portland, $112,186. away but we finally shot it down." . The huntsman said he was shocked when he got his first real close look at the beast. "It's face was like a; bear's. But it feet were human. The creature also was covered with a long, fine hair, less coarse than a bear's, he said. Nepalese mountaineers said they had never seen anything like the beast before. They were definite that while it looked like a bear, it was some other kind of a beast. HEBOTIATIOHS TO mm LEONARD B. To Receive Mayf ield to Receive Doctor's Degree Leonard B. Mayfield, super intendent of Medford schools, was to receive his doctorate degree in education at grad uation exercises at the Uni versity of Oregon today. He was one of 18 candi dates for doctorate degrees in education. A total of 1,492 candidates are eligible for various, degrees at graduation ceremonies it 2:30 p.m. to day at Hayward field in Eu gene. Mayfield recently complet ed requirements for his doc torate, finishing his disserta tion last week, and oral ex aminations two weeks ago. His dissertation was an ex haustive study of the Oregon public school transportation program. His research into the program of state aid for public school transportation played an important part in the adjustment by the last state legislature of the for mula for reimbursement of school districts in transporta tion costs. Prior to Mayfield's report, and the legislative session, Sports Bulletins Vancouver, B.C. (UPI) Relief Pitcher Charlie Rabe singled and Buddy Peterson scored the winning run in the 9th inning at the Vancouver Mounties de feated the Seattle Rainiers 5-4 last night. Phoenix. Ariz (UPI) Jack Dittmer's bases loaded single in the last half of the 10th inning gave the Phoe nix Giants an 8-7 triumph over the Salt Lake City Bees in a Pacific boast league game here last night. Spokane (UPI) Spo kane's Indians collected four home runs, a triple and a single to come up with five runs and down the Portland Beavers 5-2 in the fifth game of a seven game Pacific Coast league series last night. " Central Point Cheney Studs American Legion baseball nine smothered Lakeview 29 to 0 here last night in a district game. Pete Stemple pitched a five inning no-hitter for Central Point. The Studs took ad vantage of 24 bases on balls. Stamped Envelopes May Be Ordered Now Business firms and profes sional persons who use stamp ed, printed envelopes, may new order the envelopes with the four-cent regular first class postage, and the seven cent airmail postage. Prices per thousand may be obtain ed by telephone from the fi nance office of the Medford post office. ' f All firms having on hand supplies of the three and six cent envelopes after Aug. 1, must add one-cent postage. The three and six-cent post age is good through July 31. MAYFIELD Doctorate Oregon's transportation aid to counties was based upon a criterion of sparsity, or the number of students within the county in proportion to the total area. Mayfield's re search showed conclusively that this basis could not be solely used and had to be conditioned with other factors to such an extent that the ex isting formula was inequit able V Other factors, which .May field found related to t h e problem, included road con ditions, the distance school buses had to travel, whether or not they could make two trips before and after school, and the type of bus used. Change in Formula The change in the transpor tation .aid formula' has result ed in increased state, support for many Oregon counties, in cluding Jackson county. Mayfield has been super intendent of Medford schools for the past three years. Prior to that, he was superintend ent of schools in Coos Bay, and between 1939 and 1944 he served as principal at Med ford High school. He also served as high school prin cipal at Grants Pass and Ore gon City. I Mrs. Mayfield and their children, Karen and Michael also attended graduation ex ercises in Eugene today. Ashland Baby Dies Of Skull Fracture Ashland James Dale Wil son, 7-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson, Ashland, died of a skull frac ture in Ashland General hos pital Friday night, according to Jackson County Coronor Carlos Morris. ' Ashland firemen, who were called and used a resuscitator until the infant could be plac ed in an oxygen tent, said they understood the baby fell from its crib at home. "There's A Small Hotel With A Wishing Well" FAIL a vie lis Was East German Reds Refuse to Discuss Matter with U.S. 'Authorization' Reported Required Berlin (UPI) The United States Saturday sent an emis sary to Communist East Ger many for the first time to ne gotiate for the release of nine "kidnaped" American airmen. The German Reds flatly re fused to deal with him. The Communists demanded that American negotiators must have formal "authoriza tion" from the State Depart ment. The demand bore out Western belief the Reds were holding the airmen as hos tages in an attempt to' force U.S. recognition. The American action broke a decade of precedent. It was forced by the Soviet refusal to live up to four-power agreements and secure the re lease of the airmen captured when their heJicopter strayed across the iron curtain last Saturday. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said Tuesday the nited States would deal with the East Germans as one must, with "kidnapers" but that it would not imply rec ognition of the puppet Com munist regime. The Soviets for the third time in a week - Saturday disclaimed any responsibility for the release of the airmen. The rejections were made in replies to two notes from theQ U.S.' State Department and' a verbal appeal from Gen. M. L Hodes, American commander in Europe. The United' States and its allies have refused to recog nize the East German puppet government since its forma tion. . But, in view of the So viet position, it had no other choice but to deal with the Reds. v Hodes sent Col. Robert P. McQuail of Bluefield, W Va. to the East German govern ment in East Berlin. McQuail is chief fof the U. S. liaison mission to the Soviet armed . forces at Potsdam. Deputy Foreign Minister Otto Winzer received the col onel but refused to discuss the matter. He demanded Mc Quail secure "formal authori zation" from the State De partment in Washington be fore the negotiations could be opened. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and warm through Monday; high today 88, low tonight 54. High Mon day 90. TEMP. Highest Yesterday ; 85 Lowest Saturday 48 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:34 a.m. Sunset 7:50 p.m. 4:19 a.m. Moonrise Monday PROMINENT STARS The Big .Dipper, in the north west at midnight.- VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, In the south west .. 10:31.m. Mars, rises l:23.m. Saturn, low in south west 3:15 a.m. Venus, rises 2:59 a.m. Q West sunui"k -
